A narrates in his lecture on the last days of the Confederacy. rugged and ragged veteran was riding along the street on a horse which, in good times, would have been worth $100 in good money, when a gentleman hailed him and offered him $3,000 for his horse. The rider looked at the bidder rather severely, and replied, "Go to (Halifax) with your $3,000; I've just paid a fellow $1,000 for currying him." It is hard to exaggerate the worthlessness of the " currency" during the last six months of the war. But for the fact that the Government supplied "rations" (such as they were), neither patriotism nor pride, nor their love for General Lee, would have kept his handful of devoted followers, within his call from the beginning of 1865. till the surrender at Appomattox in April. As it was, however, this old company maintained its high character for discipline and fidelity and courage to the last, and ninety-six men and officers answered to the final roll-call of the orderly. The number of survivors has diminished rapidly since the close of the war. Had they been blessed with the favor of the best government the world ever saw, and been encouraged by liberal pension laws, the number of survivors would, no doubt, have been much greater than it is. ROSTER OF THE BATTERY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE APRIL 9, 1865. The following were the officers of the company present when it surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse April 9, 1865: Captain: Archibald Graham, Jr. Lieutenants: J. Cole Davis, John W. Jordan. Sergeants: Samuel C. Smith, William L. Strickler, David E. Moore, Norborne S. Henry, and John E. McCauley. Corporals: A. S. Whitt. William M. Wilson, William F. Johnston, William N. Bumpass, Jr., Henry T. Darnall, William Careen, and Henry Boteler. The following roster contains the names of all the men who ever served with this company, so far as their names could be ascertained. As explained in the foregoing pages, in March, 1862, a large number of men, perhaps seventy-five, enlisted and were enrolled, but before the next pay-roll was made, many of these, by order of the Secretary of War, were distributed among other commands, and the pay roll which contained all their names, and what distribution of them was made, was lost. The new pay-roll was made from memory, hence this roster is probably not complete. The asterisk (*) affixed to names, indicates those who were present at the surrender as members of this company.† Some of its members were absent, sick, or wounded; and many whose names appear were present, but belonged at the time to other commands: The first captain, William N. Pendleton. Adams, Thomas T. Ayers, Napoleon B. *Baldwin, William Ludlow Bane, Samuel R. *Barger, William G. Barton, David R. Bell, Robert S. *Black, Benjamin F. Blackford, Launcelot M. Bolling, William H. Boteler, Alexander R., Jr. Brooke, Pendleton Brown, Henry C. Brown, John L. Brown, John M. *Cooke, Richard D. †There were also eighty-one privates present with the battery, who were paroled. For their names, see "PAROLES OF THE ARMY Of Northern VIRGINIA," Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XV, pp. 33-34.—Ed. Fuller, John *Conner, Alexander Conner, Daniel Conner, Fitzhugh G. *Conner, Henry C. Conner, George W. Conner, James A. *Conner, John C. *Craig, John B. Crosen, William G. Dandridge, Stephen A. Darnall, Andrew M. *Darnall, Henry T. *Davis, J. Cole *Davis, Charles W. *Davis, James M. M. Davis, John E. Davis, Richard G. *Dixon, William H. H. *Dold, Calvin M. Doran, John Emmett, Michael J. *Estill, William C. Gerard, Edward Gibson, John T. *Gilmer, James B. Gilmore, J. Harvey *Ginger, George A. Ginger, William L. Gold, John M. *Gooch, J. T. Gordon, William C. *Graham, Archibald, Jr. Gray, Gregory, John M., Jr. Hall, John F. *Heiskell, J. Campbell *Henry, Norborne S. Hetterick, Ferdinand Holmes, John A. Houston, William W. Hughes, William Fairfax, Randolph Faulkner, E. Boyd Fishburne, Clemt. D. Font, Henry Ford, Henry F. Ford, James A. Frazer, Robert Hummerickhouse, John R. *Hyde, Edward H. *Friend, Benjamin C. M. + Died at Chimborazo hospital, of diphtheria, on September 6, 1864. Johnson, Lawson W. *Magruder, Davenport D. *Magruder, Horatio E. Johnson, Thomas E. *Leech, James M. 11 Maury, Magruder *Lewis, Henry P. Nelson, Kinloch McCluer, John G. Nelson, Philip *McCorkle, William A. *McCrum, R. Barton Packard, Joseph McKim, Robert B. Page, Richard C. M. Paine, Henry M. Paine, Henry R. *Sandford, James Smith, J. Howard Smith, James P. Smith, James Morrison Smith, Josiah Smith, Joseph S. *Smith, Samuel C. Smith, Summerfield Strickler, James A. Swann, Robert W. *Swisher, Benjamin R. *Swisher, George W. *Swisher, Samuel S. *Tate, James F. Taylor, Charles S. *Taylor, Stevens M. Tharp, Benjamin F. Thompson, Ambrose *Thompson, John A. *Thompson, Lucas P. Thompson, Samuel G. *Tidball, Thomas H. Timberlake, Francis H. Tomlinson, James W. Tompkins, John F. *Trevey, Daniel J. *Trice, Leroy F. Trueheart, Charles W. *Tyler, D. Gardner *Tyler, John Alexander Van Pelt, Robert Veers, Charles O. Vest, Andrew *Wade, Thomas M. Walker, George A. Walker, James S. Walker, John W. Wallace, John *Whitt, Algernon A. *White, William H. Williams, John J. |